OK for me to push some new discussion here?

I did a bunch of work a while back on the data format for the KH-930e machine, and others have been using that work for some cool projects. Lately I ve been

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, Mar 16 10:13 AM

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I did a bunch of work a while back on the data format for the KH-930e machine, and others have been using that work for some cool projects.

Lately I've been working with a couple of people by email who are trying to figure some things out, and I'd like to ask that discussions move here in stead of personal email. That will get more people into the loop, spread some knowledge, and record the discussions for the future.

Any objections? It seems pretty much like what the charter of this group is, but I wanted to check first.

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> It would be nice to run this python script on windows. I am glad to find an open place to aggregate the info and have questions answered.There is also a discussion about your hack on Ravelry. people are frustrated trying to get the scripts to run.
> Thanks for the work Steve.
>

It turns out that some of the people who contacted my by email had been posting to Ravelry and other forums for months, but I wasn't following them. I updated the documentation in the got repository encouraging people to email me, and if we move discussions to this list I'll publicize that as well.

I suspect that someone may have gotten the emulator running under windows, but I've not heard from them. I do have reports of various problems with the serial port library on windows.

The problem that was discussed on ravelry and in other places was a simple bug in the disk emulator, which only happened on the KH-940 machine. It's already fixed in the repository - I just wish I had heard about it sooner. Months went by before anyone emailed me directly about it.

Steve

John R. Hogerhuis

Go for it Steve! That s what the list is here for. Thanks for all your efforts, -- John.

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, Mar 16 10:56 AM

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Go for it Steve! That's what the list is here for.

Thanks for all your efforts,

-- John.

Becky Stern

Yay, so the emulator script should work on windows now? There s also an adafruit forum topic about it:

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, Mar 16 11:52 AM

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Yay, so the emulator script should work on windows now? There's also an adafruit forum topic about it:

--- In kminternals@yahoogroups.com, Andrew Leith <andyleith@...> wrote:
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> It would be nice to run this python script on windows. I am glad to find an open place to aggregate the info and have questions answered.There is also a discussion about your hack on Ravelry. people are frustrated trying to get the scripts to run.
> Thanks for the work Steve.
>

It turns out that some of the people who contacted my by email had been posting to Ravelry and other forums for months, but I wasn't following them. I updated the documentation in the got repository encouraging people to email me, and if we move discussions to this list I'll publicize that as well.

I suspect that someone may have gotten the emulator running under windows, but I've not heard from them. I do have reports of various problems with the serial port library on windows.

The problem that was discussed on ravelry and in other places was a simple bug in the disk emulator, which only happened on the KH-940 machine. It's already fixed in the repository - I just wish I had heard about it sooner. Months went by before anyone emailed me directly about it.

Steve

Andrew Leith

I will post to Ravelry ... From: Becky Stern Subject: Re: [kminternals] Re: OK for me to push some new discussion here? To:

Steve Conklin! How wonderful! I think you re work is great and I, too, have been trying to do your knitting machine hack. I am just at the beginning, rewiring

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, Mar 18 10:28 AM

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Steve Conklin!

How wonderful! I think you're work is great and I, too, have been trying to do your knitting machine hack. I am just at the beginning, rewiring my FTDI cable. The tutorial on adafruit says that it might be possible to include setRTS() in the python code so that the green wire doesn't need to be spliced with the red wire. I have very little programming knowledge so I'm not sure how to do that. Can you help clarify that?

Thanks so much for starting this forum.

Alea Khan

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Zack Santoro

Does this mean the hack will work on the 940 as well? I had been planning to try & make the cable and follow the steps on the ada site, but then someone had

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, Mar 26 8:13 AM

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Does this mean the hack will work on the 940 as well? I had been planning to try & make the cable and follow the steps on the ada site, but then someone had said the hack worked only for the 930 machine. True, not true? Is there hope I could get it working on my (940) machine?

The problem that was discussed on ravelry and in other places was a simple bug in the disk emulator, which only happened on the KH-940 machine. It's already fixed in the repository - I just wish I had heard about it sooner. Months went by before anyone emailed me directly about it.

Steve

Becky Stern

Steve wrote: The problem that was discussed on ravelry and in other places was a simple bug in the disk emulator, which only happened on the KH-940 machine.

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, Mar 26 11:23 AM

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Steve wrote:

"The problem that was discussed on ravelry and in other places was a
simple bug in the disk emulator, which only happened on the KH-940
machine. It's already fixed in the repository - I just wish I had heard
about it sooner. Months went by before anyone emailed me directly about
it."

Does this mean the hack will work on the 940 as well? I had been planning to try & make the cable and follow the steps on the ada site, but then someone had said the hack worked only for the 930 machine. True, not true? Is there hope I could get it working on my (940) machine?

The problem that was discussed on ravelry and in other places was a simple bug in the disk emulator, which only happened on the KH-940 machine. It's already fixed in the repository - I just wish I had heard about it sooner. Months went by before anyone emailed me directly about it.

Steve

Steve Conklin

The serial adapter should work on any knitting machine which worked with the FB100 external floppy drive. The recommended way to put that together is here:

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, Mar 30 6:39 AM

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The serial adapter should work on any knitting machine which worked with the FB100 external floppy drive. The recommended way to put that together is here:

PDDemulate should also work with any knitting machine which used the FB100. If it doesn't save and restore patterns, then I'd like to know and I'll try to fix the emulator.

BUT: The software to change patterns in the knitting machine data only works with the KH930, as far as I know. The internal arrangement of the patterns and other data within the disk drive sectors is different for different models of machine, and only the KH930 has been figured out to any extent.

"The problem that was discussed on ravelry and in other places was a
simple bug in the disk emulator, which only happened on the KH-940
machine. It's already fixed in the repository - I just wish I had heard
about it sooner. Months went by before anyone emailed me directly about
it."

Does this mean the hack will work on the 940 as well? I had been planning to try & make the cable and follow the steps on the ada site, but then someone had said the hack worked only for the 930 machine. True, not true? Is there hope I could get it working on my (940) machine?

The problem that was discussed on ravelry and in other places was a simple bug in the disk emulator, which only happened on the KH-940 machine. It's already fixed in the repository - I just wish I had heard about it sooner. Months went by before anyone emailed me directly about it.

Steve

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